7th - 9th July
3 visits to Olympia for CAMRA's Great British Beer Festival. This is one of the few beer festivals I don't volunteer to work at. A pleasant change.
Below is a list of all the beers I sampled there. (A third of a pint of each). I enjoy tasting the American cask ales because in the UK they are 'rare as rocking horse s**t).
UK Beers
Allendale – Entrepreneur 4.7%
Allgates – Hopgate 4.9%
Anchor Springs – L..A. Gold 3.7%
Ashover – Hydro 4.3%
Beeston – Afternoon Delight 3.7%
Blackbeck – Black Beck Belle 3.8%
Brains – Organ Morgan 4.0%, Jack Black 4.3%
Brimstage – Rhode Island Red 4.0%
Butcombe – Adam Henson’s Rare Breed 4.2%
Cheddar – Crown & Glory 4.3%
Chiltern – WheelPower 3.9%
Clearwater – Proper Ansome – 4.2%
Dark Tribe – Sternwheeler 4.2%
Driftwood Spars – Blackheads Mild 3.8%
Elgood’s – 4 x Paw Hundred 4.4%
Facers – Splendid Ale – 4.3%
Falstaff – 3 Faze 3.8%
Frodsham – Mynza Mild 3.9%
Full Mash – Warlord 4.4%
Lees – British Jewels 4.1%
Malvern Hills – Cyneweard 3.9%
Maypole – Little Weed 3.8%
Newby Wyke – Orsino 4.0%
Ramsgate – She Sells Seashells 4.7%
St Austell – Trelawney 3.8%
St Georges – Keep Calm and Carry On 4.4%
Thwaites – Half Nelson 4.4%, 13 Guns 5.5%
Tydd Steam – RoadHouse Bitter 4.3%
Watermill – Isle of Dogs 4.5%
Weatheroak – Victorian Works 4.3%
Whittlebury – Green Dragon 4.4%
XT – 1 4.2%
Dutch Beers
De Molen – Rye IPA 6.2%
US Beers
10 Barrel Brewing – ISA 5.5%
Baxter – Stowaway IPA 6.9%
Bridgeport – Hop Czar 7.5%
Cape Cod Beer – Cape Cod Red 5.5%
Deschutes – Doc Watbrown 5.0%
Geary’s – Geary’s Pale Ale 4.5%
Grittys - Maine’s Best IPA 6.8%
Jack’s Abbey – Hoponius Union IPL 6.7%
Mayflower Brewing – Summer Rye 3.7%
Notch Brewery – Session Ale 4.5%
Oskar Blues and Brews – Deviant Dale’s IPA 8.0%
Rogue – Brutal IPA 6.2%
Run of the Mill – Summer Bitter, Some Not 4.9%
Sebago – Fry’s Leap IPA 6.0%
Sierra Nevada – Cosmic Haze 5.4%
Stone Brewing – Sublimely Self-Righteous 8.7%
Turtle Mountain Brewing – Arsenal Porter 6.5%
Watch City – Breakfast of Champions 4.5%
